I don't own One Punch Man, nor do I own My Hero Academia. Each Franchise i owned by their respective owner..
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Occasionally, her feet would refuse to move. The pressure that her two captors are emitting are nothing short of terrifying. The fact that these two nonchalantly barged into the bathroom and demanded for directions..
"Hey, there's a crossroad over here. Which way should we be taking?" Yagi asked.
Then, an idea popped in her mind-
"You better not lure us into some sort of booby trap, or you're getting your ass catapulted into kingdom comes." Yagi threatened.
...oops.
Guess I'll kill them when another opportunity presents itself.
The one-eyed monster hesitantly pointed to the right, "T- that way..."
"Wait, are you sure we can trust this... whatever this thing is?" Flashy Flash asked, skeptical.
"I'll take what I can get. Besides, it's better than aimlessly wandering around this shithole." Yagi said, as he began to walk again.
Flashy Flash's gaze dangerously gawned on the one-eyed monster, his untrusting arms began to reach for his sheathed blade.
"Shiteye." Flashy Flash called, "If you think of double-crossing us...just know that I can move faster than the eye could perceive. With one instant movement, you wouldn't even be able to tell when you're going to die."
"O- okay, p- point made across." The one eyed monster replied, stuttering, "Also, c- can we agree to call each other by our real names? Shiteye seems a bit..incriminating."
"Forgot to ask, what even is your name?" Yagi asked.
"Manako."
"Okay." Yagi nodded, "Manako it is then."
"I'll still call you shiteye." Flashy Flash glowered.
"Hey, try to have a little bit of heart. We're practically forcing this dude to be a tour guide. That's unethical for one, not to mention that we're holding him captive at the same time." Yagi admonished.
"D- dude?" Manako said slack-jawed, "I'm a girl, not a guy."
"Eh?" Both mouthed in unison.
"How does that come off as a surprise to you? The colour of my skin is literally-"
"But you don't exactly sound like a girl, though." Yagi rubbed his chin, "If anything, I didn't even think that you had a gender in the first place."
Her expression contorted indignantly, her composure began to lose itself, "Wh- what?!"
"You don't even have a dick, or a...you know what, let's just drop this. We're getting sidetracked." Yagi huffed, as his focus returned on the road ahead, "Aw man, this place is getting even narrower and narrower. Not to mention the lack of hygiene around here..."
"How do you guys even stand living in here?"
"This isn't exactly a safe haven, I can tell you that." Manako scoffed, "Humans and monsters have a gap when it comes to privileges."
"There's no distinction between the two," Flashy Flash corrected, "Monsters were once a human as well."
"I don't miss my previous life." Manako said, as she melancholically stared at the ceiling above, "Spent most of my life being a slut, I mean, who would want to take a girl like me into a proper job, much less the heroic course."
"You wanted to be a hero..huh, that's a surprise." Yagi's eyes widened a little.
"My quirk is Flashlight. In my human form, I used to be able to...you know, emit light from my...breasts.." Manako confessed, as a moment of silence rung the air, encapsulating them in an inescapable awkward moment.
Both of the heroes stayed silent, seemingly incredulous at the absurdity of the revelation.
"...I know you guys are weirded out, trust me, plenty of other guys share the same opinion-"
"No, no!" Yagi scratched his head, trying his best to reassure the monster, "You see, maybe your quirk could work as a flashl-"
"Your quirk is inadequate in this field, if I'm to be frank," Flashy Flash decided to be blunt, much to Yagi's chagrin, "With it, your versatility, or lack thereof, wouldn't be much of use."
Yagi was about to object, but Flashy Flash interrupted.
"But quirk isn't all there is to being a hero," Flashy Flash came with an unexpected continuation, "For instance, I myself don't have a suitable quirk to begin with. But with effort alone, I was able to make due with what I've got."
Manako could care less about this guy's enlightened platitudes. She just wanted to be rid of them.
However, Yagi seems to be the most tolerable out of the two.
I oughta spare him by the end of this... She thought.
"By the way," Manako pointed to the front, "There's a small cart attached to a train rail that we could use. It'll lead us to the main entrance of the base."
"A cart?!" Yagi's expression beamed, "Sounds exhilarating!"
"You sound like a child." Flashy Flash remarked.
"Liven up a little, not everything is about fighting and rescuing damsels." Yagi bumped his fist lightly into the older, retired hero, which might or might not left a minor bruise on his shoulder.
With a slight pained groan, he released his grip from the blade on his waist.
While they walked, however, they came to an abrupt halt when suddenly, the lights around them extinguished, leaving no room for their sights to pick up what caused it.
Then the lights turned on again. When Flashy Flash's eyes darted to the side, he saw that...
Yagi was no longer there.
"Wait..."
"Where did Yagi go?!"
...
It felt like a while when he fell to what appeared to be a bottomless chasm. The air brushed against his skin, as he felt something wrapped around him. Something organic and slippery.
Of course, he could just break out of it, but maybe...
This thing will lead him to the main entrance.
Falling deeper and deeper, he could feel the temperature of the air that were brushing against his skin fluctuating drastically.
What the hell?
Then, he felt the thing that was 'squeezing' him earlier unwrapping itself, as he landed on a solid ground.
The heat emanating from this place is unreal, he was almost convinced that if any other heroes were the one to land here instead of him, their bodies would've been incinerated on the spot!
Good grief, what the hell is this place?
Then, he saw what lies ahead of him, below the ground that he stood on.
A giant pool of lava, leading to some sort of Temple with...
"Hey, you the one who took me here without consent?!" Yagi asked.
"Welcome to the stage of my resurrection, YAGI TOSHINORI!" The massive creature greeted ceremoniously, "I have waited so long for this moment. You, the man who broke through the walls that no man has ever done before..You, who achieved a power beyond anything that any living organism could ever hope of achieving...you will be the perfect sacrifice, and a stepping stone for me to ascend into godhood, and rule the world as the sole emperor-"
"You got a nice bathtub, though." Yagi's eyes landed on the pool of lava, not even bothering to pay attention to the monster's needless babbling.
"...What?"
"Does it come with a free soap?" Yagi's attitude seemed to set something off inside the monster, "I wouldn't mind another hot bath."
"Such impudence. Your eagerness is misplaced, human! The ground from which you stood on is an ancient shrine that I've discovered! Not even my parents have a knowledge of this sacred ground. Do you even know the words that were carved on these very walls?!"
The large wall before them depicts a rural of a creature possessing a similar feature that Orochi does, with the multitudes bowing down before him.
Below the rural, the undecipherable words were read by him,
Crossing the vast expanse of time, our God shall resurrect on this earth.
The monster barked out another laughter, "DO YOU SEE?! I was awakened to Heaven's will! I, who changed into a monster through countless experiments, was destined to become a GOD! Since then I have donned a mask, putting up a front, obeying Gyoro-Gyoro. In our continuous search for the perfect sacrifice, our endeavours were met with a fruitless result, until this day!"
"Are you serious..!?!" Yagi's terrified voice caused the monster to pick up the pace of his boasting even more.
"WAHAHAHA! The threads of fate has led us both to this very place, like an intertwined rope, it binds us both like a strengthened bond between two lovers! Offer me your flesh, All Might, for I will begin the ceremonious resurrection of the evil God!"
"No freaking way!" Yagi shrieked in horror, "AAHHHHH!"
Orochi's moment of triumph came to a halt when he saw a naked Yagi trying to adjust himself into the lava.
"...W- what are you doing?"
Sinking himself even deeper into the lava, he felt the sensitivity on his skin skyrocketing off the charts, before eventually adapting to the heat, "Ah...there, I'm all adjusted."
Yagi's attention turned back to Orochi, "Wait a little, I gotta take a bath before I pound the information regarding the main entrance to the base out of you."
Wha...
What the hell is this guy doing...?
"Now, what were you saying earlier? Something about how cool this tub is?" Yagi asked.
"..Did something mess with the wirings in that frail psyche of yours? Do you not see the obvious threat that are presented in front of you?!" Orochi berated, the worms extending from his massive body eager to throttle the infallible, flawed hero in front of them.
"Threat?" Yagi questioned, "I haven't had a real threat for the past 30 years or so. I'm not gonna expect anything from you, unless you're really powerful to begin with."
"...I see. I would expect nothing less from you." Orochi conceded in trying to prove his superiority.
After all, action speaks louder than mere words.
I will draw the very energy stashed inside the core of this planet, and harness it.
A jolt of energy reverberated throughout his enormous body, as the very ground beneath them began to vibrate.
"Hm?" Yagi hummed, apparently still relaxed despite the display of power
The aftereffects of his overwhelming power reached even the surface, with the humans that witnessed the frenzy fleeing at the first sight of danger. Buildings and constructions site alike began to crumble, causing countless collateral damage.
Orochi compressed the energy around him, as they shrunk into a spherical, destructive ball of plasma, and with every second, the existence of it threatens to engulf the grounds that they stood on.
And with it, a violent burst of energy was shot from him, until it finally reached the lava where Yagi was still residing in.
"Man, you can't even let me bathe in peace." Yagi gathered the lava around his arm, creating a circle around it with his fingers, "Killer Move, Serious Series."
Before the energy could reach him, Yagi pressed the pile of boiling fluid underneath his palm, squirting it to the front, "Serious Squirt."
The force of a mere lava, combined with the strength backs it up with tremendous kinetic force, repelled the destructive energy, pushing it back, producing a large quantity of smoke that obscured Orochi's view momentarily.
But then, when it dispersed, Yagi emerged out of it with his fist cocked back, "I guess when the moment calls for it, a misbehaving brat's gotta need a little dose of discipline."
When his fist collided, the monster felt his skull shattered on impact, collapsing into the lava as Yagi landed on a solid ground above the lava.
"I- Impossible..I..You...that was..."
"If it wasn't obvious enough, I didn't put much into that punch. Well, unless you want to turn into an intestinal confetti spattered all over the cave walls." Yagi said, as he put back on his sweater, "Now, may you point me into the direction of the Monster Association's base?"
But the creature remained unresponsive.
"Oi, I know you're still alive. Don't play dead- or did I kill you?" Yagi leaned forward, scanning the idle monster, who, in turn, was still breathing. Very much not dead.
"Nah, you aren't dead."
"Man, screw it. That Manako girl is much more reliable than you. Thanks for nothing." Yagi threw his hands in the air as he was headed to the exit.
But then, the very walls of the shrine itself began to collapse, rubbles after rubbles falling into the lava.
And when it all fell apart, the missing piece from the rural was revealed.
A tall, more fearsome entity towering above what appeared to be Orochi and the multitudes worshipping him.
One word transcribed above the entity, an undecipherable word that only a few can read:
"Our God."
TO BE CONTINUED!